I have tuned for the Browns on several occaisions. I used a cybertuner and did the job in three or four hours with an hour and a half touch-up after the rehersal (the last time) I used one program for the D and transfered it to the other D and then calibrated one of the Bs and tuned the other 2 to that program. Although I don't normally use the Cybertuner it was very usefull for that situation About ten years ago I tuned 6 pianos (2 Ds and 4 Bs) before I had my Cyber Tuner. This was for a performance called a Piano Choir. It consisted Dr. Billy Taylor and a local university professer and four of his students . All 6 pianos came from my C+A bank so they were all tuned well before they were set up in the concert hall. In this situation I used the one main D as reference and checked all the other pianos against it by putting the two keyboards face to face and stradling the bench in between the pianos. Luckily I had a large stage to move the pianos around on. One of the times I tuned for the Browns they used the pianos they were touring with and I found the pianos to be in good tuning. I figured any drifting would be unnoticed since they were all coming from the same circumstances per moving and tuning and temperature changes. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Phil Frankenberg" <philfrank56 at comcast.net> To: "Pianotech List" <pianotech at ptg.org> Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2011 4:36:06 PM Subject: [pianotech] My Dillema: 5 Browns In two months the 5 Browns are coming to Chico to give a concert and open rehearsal. With them comes 5 pianos, 2S&S D's and 3 B's. I am expected to tune them all the day they arrive (the open rehearsal day) and the next day which is the day of the concert. I am a good tuner and I'm relatively quick, but there's no way I can do 5 concert tuning in 5 hours and repeat that again the next day. I'm 64 years old and comfortable with two a day and often three, but even when I was 25 I wouldn't have been able to do a good job after the first three. I assume they have done concerts all over the country and other techs have faced something similar. Any advice? Anyone want to trade places with me for a couple of days? I wish I could do it, I'd give them a whopper of a bill. Thanks Phil Frankenberg CSUChico Chico, Ca. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20110112/6e84775b/attachment.htm>
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